The Star is great!
      It's great getting The Columbia Star out of my mailbox again! Your lead editorial responding to Becci Robbins' S.C. Progressive Network propaganda caught my eye immediately. I agree with your response, especially that the Freedom of Information Acts are a good start. The St...
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Ivory- bill woodpecker not extinct
      The article on the Miller- Ellison house and the present owner, sculptor Grainger McKoy, states the birds shown that he carved are extinct.
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Avocado Lady is a catnapper
      Vera and Rose Ellen are leaving a shopping center in San Antonio. As they head for the parking lot, Rose Ellen spots an orange and white cat lying dead on the asphalt. A cat lover forever, Rose Ellen stops to gaze sadly at the poor critter. Vera is in a hurry. She wants to put their s...
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Thirty- something speaks
I want to be a professional pencil fighter
      In another attempt to rescue our public school system, the S.C. legislature has decided to put the future of our great state in the hands of middle school students.
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It's not a criticism, it's an observation.
The old man and the dog
     The first thing I saw were the shoes. They were fluorescent white, just out of a shoebox, just out of Wal- Mart. The old man wore khaki pants and a plaid shirt under a light jacket. A red Farm Supply baseball cap sat on his head. He could have been anywhere between 65 and 85, depending on how hard h...
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USS Alligator
did not become Submarine Explorer
      My attention was recently drawn to your article of 29 December in The Columbia Star , entitled "Adventure on Saltspring Island." A number of errors in it which, for the sake of historical accuracy, ought to be corrected.
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